Marcelle Pradot
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Biography: Marcelle Pradot was a French actress who worked principally in silent films. She was born at Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, near Paris. At the age of 18 while she was taking classes in dancing and singing in Paris, she was asked by Marcel L'Herbier to appear in his film Le Bercail. She was noted as an aristocratic beauty, and she was described by the critic Louis Delluc as "the Infanta of French cinema" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montmorency, France
Birthday: July 27, 1901
Deathday: June 24, 1982
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Gender: Female
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The Late Mathias Pascal
Overview: Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-07-02
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L'Inhumaine
Overview: A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-12-12
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El Dorado
Overview: In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-10-28
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Prometheus, Banker
Overview: A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-05-11
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Le Bercail
Overview: Evelyne attempts to reconnect with her family after a traumatizing experience with a young writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-11-28
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The Man of the Sea
Overview: Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-12-03
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Le Carnaval des vérités
Overview: Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-06-04
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Don Juan et Faust
Overview: Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-10-07
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Le marchand de plaisirs
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-04-27
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Illegitimate Child
Overview: The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-02-03
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L'Argent
Overview: Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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